From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCMIv-0000x2-Ku for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:48:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3091AE0CB5; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from proxy2.bredband.net (proxy2.bredband.net [195.54.101.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A824E0CAC for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2.bredband.com (195.54.101.122) by proxy2.bredband.net (7.3.127) id 47285ABF0178F22A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:47:39 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAF9+g0dV4sdLRmdsb2JhbAAIkAoBAQE3mQM Received: from c-4bc7e255.017-72-73746f39.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO [192.168.1.100]) ([85.226.199.75]) by ironport2.bredband.com with ESMTP; 08 Jan 2008 22:47:39 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact? From: Per-Erik Westerberg To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <254100.90879.qm@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> References: <254100.90879.qm@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:47:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1199828858.18850.2.camel@calvin.bredband.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b33fc5c5-18d5-4e55-bb87-bbbdfcc682a2 X-Archives-Hash: a96fc64adde43944c2bea44afef791aa tor 2008-01-03 klockan 13:16 -0800 skrev BRM: > I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long > time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue > I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near identical system that > might get Gentoo 2007 installed. Both are on two separate networks and > have no communication between them. > > The first system does have some Internet access through a firewall, but > it doesn't really work, at least for this purpose; so it's just as good > as not having any access at all for this purpose. > > The second system may or may not have Internet access, so for now let's > just assume it doesn't. It's really this second system that I want to > figure the problem out for. > > In either case, I can't update portage using the normal method of > 'emerge --sync'. So, I'm trying to figure out a solution that would > enable me to update the systems. Under Slackware, I'd just point > pkgtool to the CD media and install from that, just like during > installation. Is there a similar approach for Gentoo? How do I overcome > the source mirror issue too so that the systems don't try to download > stuff from the web? > > I could probably host an rsync server on the local systems to host > portage, but how would I keep it up to date? Would I simply be able to > extract a tarball into the directory rsync is serving up? > > I can get large tarballs or ISOs from other systems to these systems; > but they won't be able to download them themselves. > > I noticed the Manual Download info in the FAQ: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#manualdownload > > However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the long > term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a lot > of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution similar to the > following: > > # tar xvjf /portage-sources-.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage-sources > # tar xvjf /portage-.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage > # emerge --sync --portage-source /my-portage > # emerge world -vuD --sources /my-portage-sources > > If there isn't a solution, I might look into how to make a solution > (not sure). > > TIA, > > Ben Hi, Have you tried to use a proxy (adjust accordingly)? export http_proxy=http://proxy.company.com:8080 export ftp_proxy=http://proxy.company.com:8080 export RSYNC_PROXY=proxy.company.com:8080 BR / P-E -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list